Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Kaye has lived a nomadic life for most of her sixteen years – following her mother’s rock band from city to city. An attack on her mother sends them home to her grandmother’s house in New Jersey, and against this surprisingly gritty (for a YA novel) backdrop, Kaye’s […]
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Read for the 2010 YA and RIP V Reading Challenges. I love Neil Gaiman. He’s probably the only person in the universe that can start a story off with a toddler managing to escape the murder of the rest of his family by wandering into a graveyard, and make it into a more or less
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. Tally is an Ugly, just shy of her sixteenth birthday, when she’ll have an operation to make her Pretty. Once you’re Pretty, it’s your job to party all day, with no cares in the world. Tally’s one of the youngest in her class, so most of her friends
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve come to the end of another series that I’ve very much enjoyed. I’d been both anticipating and dreading finally reading the The Singing – it’s nice to see a story to a satisfying conclusion, but also sad that there are no new tales to look forward to.
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Read for the 2010 YA and Historical Fiction Reading Challenges. The Beduin’s Gazelle takes place in the 14th century, in the desert of Northern Africa where the Beduin roamed. It’s the story of cousins Atiyah and Hamila, who were promised to each other at birth. Atiyah has been sent to the city of Fez to
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Read for the 2010 YA and Historical Fiction Reading Challenges. Tessa is the under-wardrobe mistress of one of 1920s Vienna’s opera houses, where she loves being in the thick of things. It’s hard work, but she loves it, and everyone in the opera company adores her. What they don’t know is that she’s really Princess
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Read for the 2010 YA and the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Every person that’s read Graceling, every blog that I follow that’s reviewed it, has had nothing but the best things to say about Graceling, so I started this book with high expectations. I’m very happy to say it didn’t disappoint. In
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Read for the YA 2010 Reading Challenge. Life at Obernewtyn has gained a bit of normalcy. Since they’re so far from the Council’s lands to the south, the Misfits are protected by their remoteness, and they believe they have time to gather their forces before the Council comes to investigate them. They’ve divided themselves into
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Peri has lost both her parents to the Sea – her father when he left one morning in his fishing boat, and her mother, because she has never stopped waiting for Peri’s father to come home, and no longer lives in quite the same world
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV and 2010 YA Reading Challenges. Enna Burning is the second book in Shannon Hale’s Bayern series, picking up after the events of The Goose Girl. The Goose Girl is based on the fairy tale, but the books after it continue with the stories of some of the
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